libassuan-config command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

libassuan-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libassuan-config: command not found

Solutions to libassuan-config: command not found

How To Fix libassuan-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu libassuan-config is provided by libassuan-dev package.

libassuan-dev is:

Libassuan is a small library implementing the so-called “Assuan protocol”. This protocol is used for IPC between most newer GnuPG components. Both server and client side functions are provided.

This package contains header files and static libraries for libassuan.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install libassuan-dev

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install libassuan-dev.

sudo apt -y install libassuan-dev

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install libassuan-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix libassuan-config command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.